An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope (Paperback)

from stephxsu

This was a read for one of my classes, and unfortunately I have to say that I liked Trollope and his works much better before I read this. It is interesting, no doubt--but the man himself is rather unappealing, thoroughly self-important, lacking in confidence, and vindictive. It is more a discuss...

from mbmackay

Autobiography of one of my favourite authors. Interestingly, publication after his death led to his downgrading in critical acclaim. His misdemeanour? He described how he worked on his novels every day from 5:30AM for three hours - producing a set quota of words/pages daily. To the Victorian elit...

from KayCliff

After a depressing account of the author's unhappy childhood, gives a fascinating picture of 19th-century publishing, of authorship in general and Trollope's own idiosyncratic methods of writing, his views of literary criticism, the works of his contemporary novelists, and politics.

from souloftherose

I always feel torn when it comes to reading author biographies/autobiographies: I want to read them before I read the author's novels so that I can understand their novels, but the biographies often include plot summaries and spoilers for those books. For Trollope I decided to risk it and take th...

from lizzy_bb

Surely one of the strangest autobiographies I have read. Includes a list of exactly how much money each of his novels made.